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Directorate Communiqué

The following was posted in the Directorate Communiqué section of the MacHeist forums by Monique at 04:49 GMT on December 18, 2007:

ALERT: Latte, Elephant, Red Eye... calling all agents in Chicago!

Agents:

Another mysterious message has surfaced...

We're scrambling to figure what it all means. We have a hunch that this has something to do with the RDF machine, but time will tell. We're at a loss here so if you have anything to contribute, your help will be greatly appreciated, agents.

Meeting Description and Outcome

This, at the moment, is the best that I can recall what occurred during the mini-heist and results of what occurred. Sorry for it taking so long, work took some precedence.

We found the elephant and latte that we were supposed to meet between. The elephant is part of an advertisement from Starbucks on the wall and, as far as I can assume, the latte is the Metro Cafe & Grill that is across the Great Hall from the advertisement.

Once the time came for the drop, a man approached us and handed us a package. Inside of it was a goPhone form at&t that we subsequently got a call on telling us to go to Cloud Gate and go to the bench to the left of PG, which stands for Park Grille and is on the sign for the restaurant. We were told that we were being followed and that we should proceed on foot.

Upon arriving at Millennium Park we went to the bench and noticed that we were being filmed. We found the envelope and found inside three pictures of locations in Chicago - DePaul Center (1 E. Jackson Blvd or Jackson and State), the lion outside the Art Institute (Adams and Michigan), and sculptures at the south end of Grant Park (Roosevelt and Michigan) - as well as a letter which read:

X+1 MARKS THE SPOT

ASK J8D4W9R5

We figured, after a little while, that X+1 meant that we should be looking for a Y of all the locations and we determined where the middle of them was, which was Congress and Michigan. It was around this time that we began to hear rumblings on the IRC about a Flickr with the username of J8D4W9R5. The pictures at the Flickr contained that of a CPS parking garage south of University Center of Chicago (Congress and State), The Field Museum, and Buckingham Fountain. We were supposed to find the point where the two Y’s crossed as these locations formed one themselves. However, we could not easily find this location without a map and ultimately were aided by those who arranged this mission. The location that we were supposed to go to is near Harrison and Michigan, but again, our ineptitude prevented this location from being found.

We were told by the mission master to go to Borders on Michigan Ave. by Water Tower Place to find a “man who is a Daring Girl and when questioned can answer you in expertly in C#.” This was our hint as to who we should find. We hopped in a cab to get up to Borders and subsequently found him - he was reading a book called "The Darring Book For Girls" (Thanks Matt-_ from IRC!) and had a book about the programming language of C# on the couch with him - on the second floor, handing us the envelope that we couldn’t find before as well as the next clue.

The next clue told us to go up to the third floor and go to the performance area of the store and look out the window. When we did this, we got another call that told us to go to a green chair by the famed Water Tower to retrieve the last envelope. This envelope contained the Zip disk and the Declaration of Independence.

This leads us to the disk image on the Zip drive that can be opened with the password DELETETHIS - which is found on the envelopes - and the Bugzapper software box.

Some notes: The envelopes read DELETETHIS when read as there are letters scrawled on them in magic marker. The envelopes also read TINAG - This Is Not A Game. This is not integral to the heists so far as we know. The hash marks on the envelope mean nothing...that is our own work.

If there are any questions, please ask and I’ll do my best to provide more information. I’m sure that I overlooked some information. Hopefully it won’t bring the same result as it has at other times. Images will be added later as the uploads are taking forever.

Links

Map of envelope locations (provided by pushing.robot from the forums)

Warbrain's flickr set of mini-heist

Flickr created with images of additional locations making up the second Y